>>1668362There is a lot of confusion surrounding mass transit in the US but there are legitimate concerns.
America is a pretty large nation, we're fairly spread out, even in cities. We don't all live vertically as many of us want our own space in which to exist. Suburbs were successful because they do appeal to that. If they didn't, they would have failed.
Many folks claim to be capitalist but ignore the monopoly car manufacturers have on transportation, however, taxpayer funded bus services are typically trash, filled with vagrants and as American cities decline (as they all do), service gets worse, more crime-ridden, more sporadic yet costs increase. Politics entrenches itself in operation, services become about "the poor," and are never about the public sector unions providing shit service, kicking back tens of thousands to politicians to vote for their next raise.
Take California's rail project. It was over before it began. Friends, brother-in-law, families got involved and siphoned millions off, and will never be held accountable. The project is 10 years behind schedule, over budget by what, quadruple at this point? It has been fighting enviro-weenies, who want mass transit but can't bear the thought of the furry mud frog's habitat being disturbed.
I'm right-leaning, like I think a case can be made for Fascism given enough mental gymnastics, which pretty much all politics requires (see the aforementioned enviro-weenies) but even I see the need for competition in transit. People don't realize car prices would drop, car jobs might suffer, but gas prices would go down. The shitty part of this, besides the manufacturing job loss in Mexico, is cities would hire mostly minorities, who we know DO NOT WORK, and add to the shit service. If you've never met a black in America, you have no clue what i'm speaking of or are willfully ignorant. But this isn't about minorities as much as it is the policies that would cause a failure.
I could write on this all day.
